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[Insomniac]

Went there for lunch today. Its now called The Bay and is Mediteranean rather than a Brazilian (fnarr fnarr). Louis the manager or owner, took it over in December after Jean-Paul legged it. It still looks huge for the six or so patrons at the tables. But its location is of course, relaxing.

I had Mussels in w.wine/shalot sauce, a glass of good house white, chips (deep fried boiling hot sliced local spuds), ice cream, a coffee with a double scotch on the rocks. HK$360. The mussels were okayish, but too way much butter in the sauce. Surprised that there was no bread to go with it.

The sampan from Aberdeen to Mo Tat Wan only costs $80. Is that just the daytime fare? The ferry back is looking very old. It must be making money though. MTW has a better schedule to ABZ than PKT does.

http://www.thebayhk.com

[foreign body]

The Bay is nothing like the former Cococabana in Mo Tat Wan.

Now even stopping for coffee is not recommended. The place looks really run down, the manager hasn't got a clue of what Mediterranean food looks or tastes like, the menu is a poutpourri of Western dishes, the kind you can find in any Chinese-run socalled "Western" restaurants: hot dogs and burgers are not exactly Mediterranean dishes.

After taking a look at the menu, we decided to have only hot drinks and eat somewhere else in YSW.

We ordered a double espresso and a cappuccino. They arrived lukewarm with.... a complimentary bowl of spicy peanuts! WTF?!

The music was awful, some elevator music from the 80s, my friend suspects Kenny G, but i cannot confirm because i have no idea what Kenny G music sounds like.

The worst surprise was the bill, HK$ 80 for a coffee and a cappuccino. For that price you can have 2 tea sets with cheesecake at Shelly's cakes in YSW.

Needless to say i will never go back.

[Lamma-Gung]

Thank you for this food review, an all too rare and worthy message in this forum these days and much appreciated! Also thanks for the warning, as it's a long way to go there and then be so disappointed.

This sounds like there's new management or ownership at The Bay, as this is a very different experience from my own less than 1 year ago. It definitely wasn't Jean-Paul of Cococabana's former amazing 5-star Corsican/French cuisine anymore, but it held up a pretty decent hotel coffee shop-style menu with very nice seafood quite recently, targeted at the junk trip crowd almost exclusively, definitely not a hot dog and burger joint. I've got to bike down there for a late lunch sometime very soon and investigate myself...